Fool Quotes - Page 9

If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool.

He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

Only fools want to be great.

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

Even a fool is wise after an event.

A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

Only fools make permanent decisions without knowledge.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?